Families are invited to participate in activities and games at Sheldon, including an art-making project led by Omaha artist Steve Tamayo. This event is in conjunction with the exhibition Visualizing Survivance, Visualizing Permanence, which runs January 21 - July 13, 2025. Registration for this event is requested. Registration may be completed via a link in […]
Each Salon Reading Series event features a reading of a play followed by a moderated discussion of the play’s themes and how these themes apply to the community. The theme for 2024-25 is “Hold On.” This theme will explore concepts of holding on and letting go. The Salon Reading Series is free and open to […]
Each Salon Reading Series event features a reading of a play followed by a moderated discussion of the play’s themes and how these themes apply to the community. The theme for 2024-25 is “Hold On.” This theme will explore concepts of holding on and letting go. The Salon Reading Series is free and open to […]
Omaha Performing Arts' Hip Hop Lab was formed to educate, elevate, and amplify the 50-year legacy surrounding the global impact, performance, history, and culture of hip hop. Dance is more than movement—it’s a language that carries stories, culture, and expression. Join the dance collective Ladies of Hip Hop before their performance at the Holland Center […]
Ferin Davis Anderson will give a keynote talk for Wild Great Plains, the Center for Great Plains Studies’ 50th annual conference. Anderson will discuss reciprocal restoration and examples of how stewarding a place can lead to cultural revitalization within a community in a talk titled: “How Reciprocal Restoration Fosters Cultural Revitalization.” This talk is free […]
Before selected concerts in its 2024-25 season, Lincoln’s Symphony Orchestra organizes a 20-30-minute conversation with LSO’s Maestro Edward Polochick and a featured soloist or composer, hosted by Nebraska Public Media’s Genevieve Randall. The pre-recorded chat for each classical concert is available to view online as well as via podcast the Monday before the concert, and for […]
On April 24th at 6:00PM in Barbara Weitz Community Engagement Center rooms 201-209, the Department of History will welcome Dr. Monica Green as this year's Richard Dean Winchell Lecturer. Discover how pandemics truly begin—and why they thrive—by tracing their path from medieval plagues to modern outbreaks. In this talk, Dr. Green will reveal how infectious diseases jump species barriers, travel global […]
The conference theme this year is inspired by the 100th anniversary of the publication of The Twilight of the Sioux. Published as a combination of the last two chapters (or songs) of John Neihardt's book "A Cycle of the West," the book "Twilight of the Sioux" addresses the tragedy experienced by Plains Indians in the "Song […]
Bright Lights provides unique, motivating, hands-on summer learning camps for K-8th grade students, including humanities subjects like literature and writing, history, world cultures. and languages. Scholarships are available, and the deadline to apply for a scholarship is May 1. For more information, visit the Bright Lights scholarship page. The first camps begin June 2, and the application deadline […]
Loper Launch is a fun, engaging way for kids entering grades 1-8 to continue learning during the summer while connecting with the UNK campus. Families can choose from a variety of one-week workshops and four-week academies led by educators from UNK and area school districts. Registration and fees are required, and the deadline is May […]
“Vaquero” was created by the Wittliff Collections at the Alkek Library, Texas State University-San Marcos, presented in partnership with Humanities Texas. It features sixty-two digital carbon prints with bilingual narrative text that reveal the muscle, sweat and drama that went into roping a calf in thick brush or breaking a wild horse in the saddle. […]
Now in its 8th year, the Poetry & Music Project connects student poets and their words with composers to create original music and explore the connections between poetry and music. For the 24/25 Project, Opera Omaha received 66 poem submissions from students across Nebraska inspired by the theme “My Neighborhood.” Poets ranged from second graders […]
